A Rhetorical Analysis Of What Is Truth

What is truth? A simply complex question, truth is what we know, what we believe, or simply what is definite. I believe that we have personal truths that drive our beliefs, both of which are ever changing. In these changing truths, there is a common attribute: to further our truth is to strain our own being. For the betterment and continuity of human thought, we must undergo personal strains in the hope of going deeper into our changing beliefs. These strains are not all internal, for looking for truth is to subject ourselves to the possible maleficence of our own findings. The truth is a dangerous necessity. In his essay, Bertrand Russell claims that truth and their implied falsehoods are properties of beliefs. However, unlike belief, they …show more content…
When we begin our journey into furthering our truths, we must first begin with the realization of what we already knew may be false or incomplete. Rather, we should believe this, as it makes it easier to seek a truth. This follows the Descartes method of finding truth by forgetting what we know and starting from scratch, but to a lesser extent. Once we start this, we are already are in discomfort with letting go what we are comfortable with. There is where the real challenge begins. The new idea strains our mind in searching for truth. To what extent is completely dependent on the thought and the passion, but the strain is there. The real damage is done to those who consume the questions and then are consumed by them. In other words, “when you stare at the abyss, the abyss stares back into you”. The real damage is done to those who don't find comfort in the answer or to those who can't find the answer at all. The real damage is done to those who tear apart their own minds in the search of truth. Is it not curious that, throughout history, the people who we claimed to be geniuses and great thinkers were those who were the most mentally troubled. Alhough it doesn't have to be the greatest minds to experience it from the van Gogh who cut off his own ears to the worried parent who stays up all night in wonder of if their child is actually at a movie. The unknown truths of our lives tortue …show more content…
So then there must be a reason, that one would even start the possibly self destructive process many reasons and variables play into acts as important as these. However i believe the main components are, first curiosity. The old saying goes “curiosity killed the cat” this is a direct metaphor to the human condition of wondering. We can't help but to wonder the big questions, we want to look for an answer because we feel there must be one. Second is pure responsibility. The humanity's role is to better the species, and continue so when a new idea rises it spreads. As plato wrote in his Allegory of the cave it is the responsibility of the people who rise above the common thought to spread its idea and take the rest of the community and bring them into the light even if they go kicking and screaming. “ To this end, he created them, not to please themselves, but to be instruments in binding up the states.”(Plato-30) If we were to self discover a truth that helped us see the world, would it not be selfish to keep the idea to oneself. There is no crime in a wrong thought, only if the thinking stops completely should change be